Major Star Wars Character To Die in Next Books

Brandon Phillips wrote to us about a recent USAToday story concerning the next set of Lucas-approved post-TRJ books. R.A Salvatore is writing the new books (great author) and one of the major characters dies. Warning: by clicking through you will know who dies. Or just buy the book.

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Da Man

[Raindog]

This is just another example of "The Man" keeping the wookie down. Do the annoying, lilly-white non-furry people get it? No, they run around screwing each other. But what happens to the wookie....Thats right...killed off in a vague attempt to save a dying series....

Damn the Man!!!!!Save the wookie!!!!

Lucas disappoints me again

[konstant]

After the massive disenchantment expressed by long-time SW fans over The Phantom Menace, this move by Lucas is upsetting, but not surprising. He's heard the frequent complaints that TPM was too trivial and candied, and despite his incessant protestations that this was just a "children's movie, for children", you know he's gotta be feeling the criticism.

After being idolized by so many of us for so long, how could he not be disturbed by our sudden loss of faith?

So Lucas is trying to prove he is not namby-pamby, and that the Ewoks and Jar Jar really aren't his notion of "pivotal characters". He wants to demonstrate to us that hey can be dark and brooding, and that terror still exists in the Star Wars universe.

But what a cheap means to do it! Kill off an old favorite (and notably, one who added more color than content to the series) and suddenly you gain both the attention and the approbation of people who have grown out of comical pratfalls. All it takes is a call to a popular author - you don't even have to invest your creative labor!

Sad. I suspect we will see increasing amounts of this as Lucas marches towards his next multi-million dollar flop. I predict large fuzzy giggling bunnies from outer space will dominate the next movie, and in the books Leia will get gang raped.

-konstant